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Why Blackstone, KKR and Apollo are moving in different directions

2025/6/4
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Antoine Guerra
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Jim Zelter
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Michela Tendera
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Steve Schwarzman
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Antoine Guerra: 作为一名记者,我一直在密切关注黑石、阿波罗和KKR这三家华尔街最大的私募公司如何应对特朗普的关税政策所引发的市场动荡。在投资者电话会议上,他们各自阐述了公司如何才能最好地应对市场挑战,并坚称自己会比竞争对手做得更好。这些公司实际上是在公开批评其他公司,解释为什么自己的策略是最好的,这种情况并不常见。这些财报电话会议正值私募资本消化可能出现的广泛经济放缓之际,而私募资本行业已经连续增长了几十年。管理层的言论清晰地表明了他们将如何应对比以往更严峻的环境。这三个公司实际上开始采取截然不同的策略,哪种策略更具弹性,这是一个悬而未决的问题。 Michela Tendera: 这些公司最初都从事杠杆收购业务,但现在随着它们发展成为大型金融机构,这种情况已经完全改变。黑石仍然是更传统的私募股权资产管理公司。由于市场状况目前仍不明朗,而且在不久的将来似乎还会持续下去,你认为哪家公司最有可能脱颖而出? Steve Schwarzman: 我们在许多经济和市场低迷时期的经验告诉我们,部署资本的最佳时机是在风险规避的世界中,当市场情绪最为消极时。对于我们的股东来说,黑石是一家轻资产的第三方资本管理公司,净债务极少,没有保险负债。因此,与其他大多数金融公司相比,我们的风险状况不同,这使我们能够灵活地应对不断变化的情况。 Jim Zelter: 对一些人来说,轻资产已经成为“我们赢了,正面我们赢,反面我们也赢,希望我们的客户没事”的代名词。相比之下,我们以客户为中心的模式,以及我们以原则为导向的资产负债表,使我们的平台具有无与伦比的机动性。

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Blackstone, Apollo and KKR. Although they have similar origins, these three top private capital groups are moving in different directions amid tumultuous markets. What do these approaches look like? And will they hold up in a potential downturn? The FT’s Antoine Gara, US private equity and deals editor, breaks down each approach and who’s most likely to perform best in the future.

For further reading:

How Blackstone and its biggest rivals are drifting apart

Should ordinary US retirement accounts be investing in private assets?)

Private equity industry shrinks for the first time in decades)  

Follow Antoine Gara on X (@AntoineGara)), or on Bluesky (@antoinegara.bsky.social‬)). Michela Tindera is on X (@mtindera07)) and Bluesky (@mtindera.ft.com)), or follow her on LinkedIn for updates about the show and more. 

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